Lloyd Alexander Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Heart, Trying, Keep Trying

• I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Art, Reading, Thinking

• Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Heart, Pigs, Tasks

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.179, Macmillan

• Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Heart, Add

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.24, Usborne Publishing Ltd

• Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Hate, Believe, Heart

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.164, Usborne Publishing Ltd

• A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Fashion, Grief, Heart

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.81, Usborne Publishing Ltd

• She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Heart, Given, Values

• I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

  Lloyd Alexander

  Art, Imagination, What If

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